mailto html tag opens outlook with Rich Text not HTML

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Jim Mitchell

Is there anyway to set a mailformat=html in the mailto of a <a href=mailto
tag?

Every time I use this method I get a Rich Text formatted outlook e-mail.

Thanks in advance.
 
Jim Mitchell said:
Is there anyway to set a mailformat=html in the mailto of a <a
href=mailto tag?

Every time I use this method I get a Rich Text formatted outlook
e-mail.
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What happens when you configure Outlook to default to HTML format for
new mails instead of RTF?
 
It is set to HTML. It is almost as if outlook has a security check that
will not allow a mailto with a &body flag to load as an HTML e-mail. By
forcing Rich Text, it eliminates the ability for someone to had some harmful
javascript. I guess. This is the question I am trying to ask.

Jim
 
Jim Mitchell said:
It is set to HTML. It is almost as if outlook has a security check
that will not allow a mailto with a &body flag to load as an HTML
e-mail. By forcing Rich Text, it eliminates the ability for someone
to had some harmful javascript. I guess. This is the question I am
trying to ask.

Jim
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Following the info in RFC 2368, I entered the following in the Address
bar in the taskbar:

mailto:[email protected][email protected]&body=send%20current-issue

The e-mail compose window for Outlook opened, prefilled the To and Cc
headers and inserted the text into the body - and it was in HTML format
(the default format I configured for Outlook to use for new e-mails). I
couldn't even choose RTF if I wanted to because only Plain Text and HTML
are the available formatting options in the Format menu. So something
is different with your setup that forces it into RTF mode rather than
HTML mode.

Do you have Outlook configured to use Word as its e-mail compose editor?
Or are you using the Outlook-embedded compose editor? I use Outlook's
own compose editor.
 
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